Land Ownership and Informal Credit in Rural Vietnam

Matteo Migheli ()

No 183, CeRP Working Papers from Center for Research on Pensions and Welfare Policies, Turin (Italy)

Abstract: Access to credit and its cost is a major challenge for farmers in developing countries. Several studies show that land serves as collateral for accessing formal credit, but they often do not find any significant effect of land size on access to informal credit. I study the effects of land ownership on both the demand and the cost of informal credit in the Mekong Delta. The results show that as land ownership increases, both the demand and the cost of informal loans decrease. Design and implementation of appropriate land redistributions seems a fundamental way to fight the informal credit market.

Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2018-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-dev, nep-iue, nep-mfd, nep-sea and nep-tra
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.cerp.carloalberto.org/land-ownership-an ... it-in-rural-vietnam/ (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:crp:wpaper:183

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CeRP Working Papers from Center for Research on Pensions and Welfare Policies, Turin (Italy) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Silvia Maero ().